RWBY Through Worlds (End)

BC20: Wise (Snow Archer and Co.)-1

Weiss turned red. "I'm not that refined anymore..."

"For Vacuo," Oscar and Meridian said at the same time, which Meridian thought was hilarious.

"But even Theo has said he's not sure what to tell students now," Weiss mused. "He can't just tell them there will always be Grimm anymore. And...did you hear Emerald's report? Winter sent it to us."

"Oh, yeah, they're changing. It's pretty horrific," Oscar said. "Shine told me that it's them changing more to what they have in their world, only they're in this weird, in-between stage where they're not one or the other, and they're more dangerous that way. I guess once they stop being material all together, the only people who can fight them will be us. And people like us.... We don't have too many like that."

"There's another thing--we need more people who know this stuff," Weiss said. "We're not gonna live forever, are we? I mean, best case scenario, we all live to our 80s or 90s. Remnant will need someone to carry it on."

"Not a nice thought, but it's the way it is," Meridian said. "And we all saw what living too long does to a fellow with Ozma. Better to just go out at the right time."

"The afterlife sounds pretty good." Oscar tapped his book. "But I'd like to feel the world was ready for us to move on. I get why Ozpin felt like that. People never seem as ready as they could be."

"We weren't either," Weiss said. "Shine and Wally must have thought the same thing about us. There's always more we could know. So I think the best thing we could do is show people how to learn it. And how do we do that?"

"I've tried," Oscar said. "I guess I hoped the book might help with that. I'll be done soon, I think. But it's not enough."

"Better study on that," Meridian said. "But if that's our next step...well, I had some of me mates ask me how I stop Grimm so easily now. My Semblance only got stronger after that mission."

"People often just don't get it when I try to explain what happened," Weiss mused. "Honestly so many of our adventures sound so unbelievable, I wouldn't have believed them myself if I heard them from someone else."

"Maybe that's your angle," Oscar said. 

He was starting to talk like a writer about things like that, probably because of Ooblek's influence.

"My what?"

"I mean, your way of explaining it. Telling them you wouldn't have bought it either, but you've changed your mind now. I bet they'd listen if you did that."

"I guess..." Weiss tapped her chin. "I'd like to do more. I could try teaching, like Mer, but I don't want to teach combat."

"Well, no one said it had to be combat," Meridian said. 

"I'm sure you'll find out what you want to do," Oscar said.

"Maybe you should pray about it," Weiss said. "I hear you're pretty good at helping people figure things out. Like with that dust mine."

"I'm sure that wasn't really me." Oscar was shy. "I just try to help."

"You'll never realize how special you are," Meridian said. "And that's just as well. Wouldn't want you to get a big head."

Weiss pretended to shove him.

"Are you guys done yet?" Ruby poked her head into the library.

"I guess we were." Oscar closed his notebook.

"Weiss, you have to introduce me to your new friends," Ruby said.

"Hmm, I guess they should meet my niece." Weiss was just as bad as Ruby about running this joke into the ground, just in a different way.